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VOLUME 85.
RALEIGH, N. C, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1908.
PRICE 5 CENTS.
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Postmaster of New York Shot
Down Ey Disappointed
Office Seeker
MAN KILLS HIMSELF
Mr. Morgan, Accompanied by ' His
Daughter, Was on the Way to His
Office When E. H. B. Ma key,
Man Who Had Sought on Appoint
ment In the Vostof flee, Confronted
; Him, and 'After Saying a Pew
Words, Shot Him and Then Turn
ed His, Weapon on Himself. .
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
. New York, Nov. 9 Postmaster
Edward M. Morgan was shot and per
haps fatally hurt while on the way
to his office today, by a disappointed
office-seeker named Mackey, who
committed suicide immediately after
his attempt at murder. The shoot
ing occurred within a block pf Mr.
Morgan's home In 146th street, be
tween Amsterdam avenue and
Riverside Drive. Mr. Morgan was
walking with his daughter, Dorothy,
who Intended to accompany him to
the subway station, where he took a
train every morning for his office.
The wounded man is in a serious
condition, the bullet of his assailant
having penetrated through his body.
In the pockets of the man who shot
him and committed suicide Coroner
Weston found letters addressed to
E. H. B. Mackey and he has been
identified as Eric B. Mackey, a ste
nographer of 546 Broadway.
The shot which laid the postmaster
low came entirely without warning
and so suddenly that Mr. Morgan had
no time to defend himself. MisB
Dorothy Morgan's shrieks brought
several persons Tunning to her fa
taer's aid" from different" directions,
but before they could reach Mackey
he had fired three. shots at himself.
One went wild and two took effect in
his head. He fell dead.
The man was lying in wait for Mr.
Morgan in front of Newberry's drug
store, at the corner of Amsterdam
avenue and One Hundred and Forty
sixth street. He had tried repeated
ly to see Mr. Morgan at his home, af
ter his failure to obtain a position in
the postofflce, but his ' insistence
caused him to be denied access to the
postmaster.
It was shortly before 9 o'clock
when Mr. Morgan and his daughter
left his home and walked up 146th
street toward Amsterdam avenue.
As they reached the corner Miss
Dorothy was about to turn and go
back to the house when Mackey
stepped out and confronted the post
master. ' As Miss Morgan drew aside
Mackey spoke a few words to Mr.
Morgan. The latter made some re
ply and Mackey whipped out a re
volver and fired one shot. ; Mr. Mor
gan fell to the sidewalk with a bul
let wound in his abdomen.
Mackey looked wildly around him
as Miss Morgan screamed. He saw
several persons running toward them
and pushed the muzzle of his re
volver against his head. At the first
shot he staggered, but shot a second
time and then a third, the last going
wild as he fell dead to the sidewalk.
Mr. Newberry and his clerks rush
ed out and Mr. Morgan was carried
Into the drug store. A superficial ex
amination showed that the wound
would not be Immediately fatal', and
while an ambulance was being called
from the Audubon Hospital the
wounded man was carried to bis
home. Mr. Titus T. Bull was called
in to attend him.
The ambulance surgeon found Mr.
Morgan's assailant dead and his body
was taken to the police station.
Edward M. Morgan had been con
nected with the postofflce depart
ment for a long term of years. He
started as a letter carrier In 1873.
Promotion came to him rapidly and
in 1874 he was made chief clerk of
Branch B. In 1883 he was made su
perintendent of Branch I ,
In 1887 he assumed charge of
branch D, remaining there until
1889. That same year Postmaster
Vancott made Mr. Morgan superin
tendent of the city delivery. In 1897.
Mr. Morgan was appointed assistant
postmaster. He served In this office
under Postmasters aVr.cott and Wil
cox '
When' Mr. Wilcox resigned Presi
dent Roosevelt appointed Mr. Mor
gan to his place, the appointment be
ing made on August 14, 1907.'- v
, Mr. Morgan was born in Marshall,
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COIVITGHT
Charles W. Eliot, who has resign
ed as president of Harvard.
ATE RATTLESNAKES.
Dish Served to Guests in New Mexico
Mining Camp.
' Sylvanite, N. Mex., Nov. 9 Sylvan
ite, the newest gold camp of New
Mexico, now considers itself strictly
on the map in the matter of up-to-date
dishes.
On the menu card at one hotel last
night was rattlesnake, and you can't
get that even In New York. The sup
ply of fresh meat In the town ran out
Saturday,; and the guests,, who pay
$16 a day for board, kicked for meat.
William Goldsmith, the proprietor,
decided to have meat or bust, and
hired everybody he could get to go
after rattlers. In three hours they
got 78 snakes, for which they were
paid 50 cents each. The snakes were
greatly relished by the hungry
guests,
RUSSIAN PATRIOT
STILL FIGHTING
(By Leased Wire to The Times.)
New York, Nov. 9 The fight to pre
vent the taking of Jan Pouren, Rus
sian patriot, back to Russia to turn
him over to the tender mercies of the
czar's Cossacks, who knou ted Women
for refusing to tell his hiding placo,
was continued today before Federal
Commissioner Hitchcock.
Pouren's contention is that the only
offense he has committed Is that he
was a member of the national guard
of militia, organized to tight In de
fense of the people, to cldse the liquor
saloons, run by the government, and
to drive out the Cossacks.
The Russian government, through M.
De Lodlgensky, imperial Russian consul-general,
claims Pouren Is guilty of
attempted murder, arson and burglary.
Pouren attended the meetings of the
national guard and acted as repre
senatlve. of the branch organisations,
keeping each branch in touch with
what the other branches of revolu
tionary militia were doing.
THUGS ASSAULT
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Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 9 During
last night four persons who had been
assaulted by thugs were found un
conscious In the streets of this city.
One of the victims, a negro, died soon
after being found.
TS,, L. Owens, a white farmer, was
picked up in Pine street with his head
out open. When he regained con
sciousness he said that a negro had
struck him and robbed him of 140.
A young white man, well dressed,
was picked up on Whiteside stveet aad
up to a late hour had not regained
consciousness.
Th fourth victim was a negro wo
man, who was found with a severs
cut In the center of her forehead.
OUR
PERSONS
Before a Disttoguishad Audi
ence Secrelary Root Makes
Dedicatory Address
OLD SYSTEM AMI NEW
Diplomats From Nearly Every Coun
: try of the Globe, Justices of the
Supreme Cosi t, Cabinet Officers,
Heads of Departments and Army
Officers Hoar Address College
Has Been in Opt ration For More
Than n Year, But Had Never Been
Formally Dedicated Has Already
Been of Benefit.
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(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Nov. 9 Before an,
audience as distinguished as any that
has ever gathered in Washington,' Sec
retary Elihu Root today formally ded
icated the army war college. In the
great lecture hall of the college were
gathered diplomats from nearly every
country In the world, justices of the
United States supreme court, cabinet
officers and their wives, heads of de
partments in the war denartment,
army officers stationed in Washing
ton, and the members of the general
staff. .
Although the college has been in
operation more than a yea!1 It had
never been 'formally opened. Secre
tary Root Is universally looked upon
as the father of the new army, and
for t'hat reason he was asked by Sec
retary of, War '.Wright to make the
dedicatory address today.
General J, Franklin Bell, chief of
staff, made a few opening remarks,
after which he introduced Mr. Root.
The secretary of state made an ex
haustive address ,01!, . more than an
hbuiv He dwelt on the bid army as
compared with the new, and pointed
out the great advantages to be de
rived from the efforts of the war col
lege. Mr.. Root said that the insti
tution filled a long felt want lit the
army and although it was compara
tively new, its work had already bean
productive of good results.
IS SIXTY-SEVEN
(By Cable to The Times.)
London, Nov. 9 King . Edward Is
sixty-seven years old today. Usual
honors are bestowed, mainly as re
wards for political and publ.c service,
at home and in the colonies.
Sir Edward Clarke, the former solicitor-general,
Is made a privy counsel
lor. ' Alfred Rut-sell Wallace Is given
the order of merit, while George J.
Frampton, the sculptor, is knighted.
King Edward was born November 9,
1841, . . ' .
President Sends Greeting.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Nov. 8 President Roos
evelt today sent a cablegram con
gratulating King Edward VII on his
sixty-seventh birthday, which is be
ing celebrated in England toaay. On
the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary
of the president's birth recently, a
cordial message from the British king
was received here, and the. president's
message today was equally as cordial.
"VET" KILLED
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Roystou, Ga., Nov. 9 F. C. Hol
brook, s well known farmer and. Con
federate veteran, v aged sixty, 4 was
killed in an automobile accident at
10 o'clock last night, while F. G.
Bond, who was driving, William
Bailey and Bob Fowler were Injured.
Russell Baker escaped injury. The
machine was going at a rapid clip
down an Incline toward Franklin
Springs, when a front Urs came oft
and the wheel swerved, overturning
the machle. Baker ad Fowler were
throw out, Holbrook't head struck
something inside the car and ha died
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CONFEDERATE
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WILL LAUNCH BIG
FIGHTING SHIP
(By Leased vtfire to The Times)
Washington,- 'Nov. f If public ;
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business will permit, Secretary of the ;
Navy Metcalf will attend the launch
ing of the new 20,000 ton haltluship
North Dakota at the yards ot t:ie
Fore River ShipbuildingCompany at j
Quincy, Mass., tomorrow. The Norm i
Dakota is the first serui-Drcaduaught.
of the . Ass,rtlrxanw to taka the i
water and the progress ulreadv made !
In her construction Indicates t:int all i
records for speed in battleship inn-1
struction will have been made wheir
she is completed. So lar rapid pro-,
g!ss has been made. Her keel was i
laid on D.'cei.vber 1C, lasl, as the At-1
lantlc baltlesiiip fleet was . leaving I
Hampton- Uouds on its wild crmso. t
If the present rale of progress is ;
maintained . shn 'will have been com
pleted and lie in commission w.lhin i
two vearu ot tlu; date of the laving of :
her keel, which will be tyi entirely
new record ior speed in ine i nuea
tstates r.avv.
Her sister s:iip, tha Delaware,
which is builJni!? at tho yards of the
Newport News Shipbuilding & Drv-
docu Company nt Nov.port . News.1
Va., on October' 1 was 44 per cent
completed. '1 do date for launching
the Delaware lias not yet been set.
although it probably will be during
tho winter.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Washington, Nov. 9 The depart
ment of agriculture places the aver
ago yield per acre of corn at 26.2
bushels, which compares with 25.9,
the final estimate in 1907, and 2."). 6,
the average of tlio past 10 years. The
indicated total production of corn is
2,042,087,000 bushels, as compared
with 2,592. 320, 000, the final esti
mate in 1907. The quality is placed
at 86.0, compared with 82.8 in 1907,
and 84.3, the 10 years average.
About 2.7 per cent. (71,124,000
bushels) of the corn crop of 1907 is
estimated to have been in the hands
of farmers on November 1, as com
pared with 4.5 per cent. (130,995,000
bushels) of the 1906 crop In farmers
hands on November 1, 1908, and 4.5
per cent., the average of similar esti
mates for the past 10 years.
Pierce In Texas.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Dallas, Tex., Nov. 9 H. ' Clay
Pierce and party passed through Dal
las for Austin in his private car Za
mora. It Is not known why the Za
mora was sent by way of Dallas In
stead ot Fort Worth. There may
have been fear that officers at Fort
Worth would try to arrest Mr.
Pierce, although Sheriff Matthews
said he would not attempt to arrest
Mr. Plorce at the state line, but would
permit hlin to surrender In Austin.
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Campbell, formerly
whose income was
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losses in Ills wheat corner.
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SOUTH DAKOTA
ENDS D1Y0RCE
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
Sioux City, la., Nov. 9 Com-!
plete returns on the referendum of
last Tuesday show the people of
South Dakota have voted overwhelm-
Ingly to end South D.ikota's famous'
divorce mill. After the state can-
vuB8lnK board meets at Pierre the
first week in next month and ' un-
nounces officially that the new law .
has been approved, it will' no' longer)
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be possible for the discontented bales) 1 413,248 In 1908, and this fact strikingly
wives and husbands of the whole' The statistics for the United States , illustrates the necessity for a wider
world to come to South Dakota and ' include 149,340 round bales for range of markets for American rnanu
by spending six months obtain in a!l908; 125.7& for 1907; 169,741 for fauJr A oW , ,h. ., -iv..
. . . i j i.'mnf 1t, , , .one rm. The second part of the bulletin givss
secret hearing freedom and the right, 1900 , and 183 870 'or 1905..- The mimmary 0'f the preMnt ,utu, ot
to engage In more marriages. Tho number of Sea Island bales Included cott0n manufacturing throughout the
vote In the twelve largest countiess 45,49 5for 1908; 33,331 for 1907; ' world. The number of cotton splndlss
standB: Yeas, 15,805; no, 10,189. j 21,706 for 1906, and 49,161 forlln 1908 Is given as 180,054,40$ splndiss.
The new law provides that the plain-i 1905, The distribution of Sea Is-1 compared with 106,661,233 spindles In
tiff in an action for divorce must lnnd cotton for 1908. by states, is 18: the consumption of cotton in ltot
have been an actual resident in good Florida, 19,057; Georgia, 21,998; ' 18.855,619 bales, compared with 1$
faith of this state for one year and South Carolina, 4,440. The corrected 1 JS'nes iS'tectwsd cr In
of the county wherein action is com-1 statistics of the quantity of cotton te egnt yeft and tne consumption
menced for three months proceeding : ginned this season to October 18, are ot cotton 24 ner cent.
the suit.
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meeting and banquet yesterday,
JAPANESE CUTS
WIFE'S THROAT
(B.v Leased Wire to The Times)
Kaston, Pa., Nov. 9 Teru Yano
Ltsononua, wife of Joseph Utsono- i
una. was found dead Sunday after- '
noon in the cellar of the residence
of Frank McKelvev, where the wo-
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mm and h r Japanese husband had
. charge of t;)e house. There was a
j deep gash in the right sidp of the
i woman -s- neck and a small knife,
snsenred Wifti blotdv Jaj tttirlyy. "The
blade bid severed the jugular vein,
I coroner retneroir naa tne- nus-
Danu ot the woman detained at po-
I lice headquaiters until the inquest.
I tsononua and his wife had just
I returned ironi service at. the rirst
! Presbyterian church and were the
t on iv persons in the house when the
i crime, was commute.!. The woman
was a professional nurse w hen she elude cotton mills, woolen mills, knlt
wns married to T:tsonom!a three ting factories and those establishments
! years
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old.
She was twenty-seven "nlt'i use ,aw cullu" '",l"e '""'
... , . , . , ture of mattresses, batting, felts, etc.
bhe was to have joined ,ha
vtais
the PushMeiian church Sunday af-
teinoon.
lhe authorities are at loss as to
the motive the husband had in kill-
ing her-
The couple'wero' formerly employ-.
ed .by Congressman James Francis
liurKe. of Pittsburg, who took them
to h s Washington home at the open
ing of the last session of congress.
TO NOVEMBER 1.
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Hy Loused Wire to The Times)
Wnshiiif.ioii, Nov. 9 The census
i bureau issued a bulletin today show-
Inn the number of active ginneries
and bales of cotton ginned from the
irrowth nf IfinS to Knvimher 1. 190S.
as follows;
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Active
Gins,
20,295
3,36.1
2,068
KUite or
Territory.
nited States
Riles.
S.199.7S2
891,123
530,658
43,0t5
1.385,816
954
290.099
89.1,546',
30,940
373,1 SS
219, S00
822,309
Alabama . i
Arkansas . .
Florida .. . ,,
Georgia . . ,
24
4.321
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1,559 ;
3,309
69 ;
2,606 1
941
Ken. & N
Mex
Louisiana . . .
Mississippi. . .
Missouri . .....
North Carolina.
Oklahoma . . .
South Carolina.
Tennessee . . .
3,133
605 !
. 199,021
.2.501.SS6
4,657
Texas .
Virginia
4,046
(Round bales are counted as half
6,296,16 bales.
COTTON
GINNED
Census Bureau issues Bolletio
j Showing ths Distribution
I August 31.
LESS THAN YEAR BEFORE
Supply Given at 13,358,707 Bales aa
Compared With Ove Fifteen Mil
lion for 1007 Of Total Supply for -:
1908 Thirty-four Percent Was Con
sumed in the United States Nam
ber of Cotton Spindles Now Over
Twenty-Seven Million Cotton
Consumed Amounted to Over Four
Million Bales.
(By Leased Wire to The Times)
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I Washington, Nov. 9 A bulletin Is
' sued by the census bureau today shows
the supply and distribution of cotton
! for the year ending August 81, 1908.
j The supply is given as 13,3B8,M7 "run
I nlnp bales, which compares with 16,
jO25,720 bales for 1907, a falling off of
! 1,667,013 bales, or 11 per cent.
The net quantity of cotton Imported
during the year was 140,870 bales of BOO
pounds each, a decrease of 61,863 bales,
or 30 per cent, compared with the quan
tity imported during the year 1907,
when the net Imports were 202,733 bales.
Of the gross Imports, 122,170 bales, or.
85 per cent., were of Egyptian growth.
Of the total cotton supply of the
country for 1908; amounting to 4,549,
300 bales, including that destroyed by
fire, 34 per cent, was consumed in the
United States; 7,573,349 bales, or 67 peij, '
cent,, was exported, and 1,236,068 bales',
or 9 per cent., remained in the country
at the close of the year. . The com
parative figures for 1907 were 5,007,888
bales, or 33 per cent., consumed in the
"United States; 8,503,265 bales or .S7 per
cent,, exported, and 1,514,667 bales, or
; jeft
the cIose of the year. ,
j The number of cotton spindles in the
country is now 27,964,387, of which 27,-
'6,405. conmtnt-A; oma. .co)itaik'd"1i'i!..
jthe year. The latter number represents
an Increase over the number reported
for 1907 of per ent. The 'distribu
tion of spindles gives Massachusetts
34 per cent.; South Carolina 13 per
cent.; North Carolina 11 per cent.
Rhode Island ranks fourth.
The statistics for the consumption
of cotton are. for all establishments
returned as using raw cotton, and in-
year amountei to 4,539,090 bales, which
indicates a falling oft from the quantity
consumed for the year ending August
31, 1907, of 445,846 bales. The financial
disturbance which prevailed during the
portion of the calendar year 1907
18 responsmie ior
a material curtail
ment of production; this Is evidenced
by the decrease In the consumption of
raw cotton and the reduced prices for
tho raw material compared with the
activity and highly remunerative oper
ations of the previous season. The
consumption of foreign grown cotton
included in these statistics amounts to
111,571 bales, of which 6,486 were con
sumed in the cotton growing states and
106,086 in all other states.
The total quantity of cotton left In
, the county on August 31, 1908, amount
ed to 1.236,058 bales, compared with
1 1,514,567 bales in 1907, a reduction of
278.509 bales, or 18 per cent. Stocks
held by manufacturers at the close of
the yeav amounted to 694,184 bales.
compared with 1,016,738 bales for 1907,
a decrease of 422,654 bales, or 42 per
, cent. The manufacturers In the cotton
j Srovln" 8tutcs hel(i 113'471 baIf,B cm"
uurt-u lln year- wm,c
in all other states held 481,713 bales,
compared With 705,431 last year.
Tne quantity of domestic cotton ex
ported from the United States in W08
j amounted to 7,573,349 running bales,
which is a decrease from the quantity
exported in 1907 of 929,916 bales. The
quantity of Sea Island cotton Included
in the exports for 1908 amounted to
12.793,166 pounds, or 25,486 bales of 600
pounds each, About 70 per cent, of this
export was taken by the United King
dom and about 28 per cent, by France.
The annual exports of manufacturers
of cotton are subject to wide fluctua
tions, those for 1908 amounting to $25,
177,758 In value, or less one-half of the
! value of those of 1906, which amounted
tn tr.9 nai m In vuliiA Thlc, roritlftloll
is duo entirely to the falling off of the
" , exports to China, the valuo of whloh
, dropped from $29,814,076 in 1906 to $3,.
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